The good folks of Scotland should be ashamed of their govt.
For shame.
“The good folks of Scotland should be ashamed of their govt.”
Most of them didn’t vote for it. The current Scottish National Party administration only has a plurality of one vote in the devolved Parliament, and has two extra votes from the Greens.
The Parliment has 73 constituency (district) seats. It also has 56 seats selected by proportional representation.
The SNP only got 32.9 percent of the vote for the 73 district seats, and 31 percent of the vote for the 56 proportional representation seats.
Distribution of Seats: Total (district seats , proportional representation seats)
SNP: 47 (21, 26)
Labour: 46 (37, 9)
Conservatives: 16 (4, 12)
Liberal Democrats: 16 (11, 5)
Green Party: 2 (0, 2)
Presiding officer*: 1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament#Results_in_2007
*The Presiding Officer was elected as a Conservative but acts as a non-partisan referee.